Severn Deanery School of  ACCS runs rotation programmes in UBHT/Weston, North Bristol, Cheltenham/Gloucester, Bath, Swindon and Taunton. Most rotations involve 6 months Acute Medicine, 6 months Emergency Medicine, and 1 yr Anaesthesia/Intensive Care.

There are 24 places each year, 11 linked to Anaesthesia/ICU, 7 Emergency medicine and 6 Acute Medicine.  Currently 11 of the 19 entry places for Anaesthesia in Severn are within the ACCS programme, as the extra experience it offers is seen as valuable for all future anaesthetists. For future Intensivists, this is one of the easier ways to get the 6 months Acute Medical experience that is required for Intensive Care training, and is likely to be the main route to Specialty training when Intensive Care becomes a separate specialty.  ACCS is the only core training  route to enter Emergency Medicine Higher Specialist Training.  Acute Medicine trainees may also enter higher training in Acute Medicine via Core Medical Training (please see School of Medicine website), although this way is likely to produce less competitive trainees as they will not have had such wide acute care experience.

Training and  assessment are the same for all trainees (regardless of parent specialty), with an Annual Review of Competency Progession - further details under ARCP Section.

** Please note ** 

Your study leave budget runs from April to April  

please plan to use your study leave budget for 09/10 if you have not already done so

please see study leave page for further details.